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More not really about Galbraith4 o'clock, May 5, 2005Actually, last time wasn’t really about Galbraith; this time isn’t really about Husserl, Heidegger, and Freud. How curious that teachers who permit into the curriculum the most experimental fiction are aggressively defensive when it comes to literature which demands as much or more: the writings, namely, of great speculative thinkers like Marx, Husserl, Heidegger, Freud . . . I call it ‘literature’ not only to make a polemical point but from the conviction that each thinker draws on and in turn generates a text milieu of his own, so that it is not a matter of ‘knowing’ Derrida or Heidegger but of reading and steeping oneself in a corpus of critical, philosophical and literary texts which they incorporate and revise. [Geoffrey Hartman, quoted by A. Cephalous] Yes. I know Einstein, to the extent that you can know Einstein without knowing tensor calculus. But Foucault, say? Foucault I merely appreciate. |
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